עָשִׁירʻâshîyr

usually noun masculine the rich (Exodus 30:15; Ecclesiastes 10:6; Psalms 45:13; Micah 6:12; 2 Samuel 12:1)

Pronunciation: aw-sheer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6223

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 30:15 When this offering is given to the Lord to purify your lives, making you right with him, the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less.
  • Ruth 3:10 “The Lord bless you, my daughter!” Boaz exclaimed. “You are showing even more family loyalty now than you did before, for you have not gone after a younger man, whether rich or poor.
  • 2 Samuel 12:1 So the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this story: “There were two men in a certain town. One was rich, and one was poor.
  • 2 Samuel 12:2 The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.
  • 2 Samuel 12:4 One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man’s lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest.”
  • Job 27:19 The wicked go to bed rich but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).